freenx on fedora core 3
November 30, 2004
So i got around to installing Fedora Core 3 on a spare machine here at work. I been wanting to play around with selinux so i figure i would give it a shot. I wanted to use a remote X desktop and didnt feel like using VNC. To me VNC is slow as hell, it has its uses but there were better alternatives out there. So i knew there were debian packages for freenx and checked to see if there was any for Fedora Core 3. After hitting google i found a link to an article by Rick Stout at FedoraNEWS.org.
Here is the link to the original article
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
Below is what i had to do in order to get it going in fedora core 3 using a windows client
wget the following files, according to the site they are for Fedora Core 2 but they will work fine in 3
wget http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/freenx-0.2.7-0.fdr.1.noarch.rpm
wget http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/nx-1.4.0-0.fdr.3.i386.rpm
when you have both of the rpms downloaded, just run rpm -Uvh on both to install them.
Next you will need to grab a client to connect to it. I use Nomachine’s windows NX client, it’s free and easy to use. You can grab the client from Nomachine’s site here
http://www.nomachine.com/download_fil2.php?Prod_Id=16
Once you have this downloaded and installed make sure you copy the client.id_dsa.key which is located in /etc/nxserver on the linux machine and copy it to the local machine in C:Program FilesNX Client for Windowsshare
Once you have that copied over, just fire up the wizard, add the ip/hostname to the linux machine running nxserver , pick a resolution and which desktop you are using ( I use GNOME) and you should be good to go. If all goes well you should see the following screen (or something close to it).
